Henderson J Elementary School

Size

Of the 178 elementary schools in Houston ISD, Henderson J Elementary School is the 97th largest, with 0.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 329 students, so Henderson J Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 83 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 43, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 5 has 54% more students than kindergarten (83 against 54). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 43 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Henderson J Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 443 students would have about 29.9 teachers, so Henderson J Elementary School has 2.9 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is KIPP Explore Academy, 0.3 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There are 69 elementary schools within 5 miles and 201 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.